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Boy Meets Girl is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Lloyd Bacon released in USA on 27 august 1938 with James Cagney
Boy Meets Girl (1938)
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Add to a movie listBoy Meets Girl is a 1938 American screwball comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon. It stars James Cagney and Pat O'Brien, and features Marie Wilson, Ralph Bellamy, Frank McHugh, and Dick Foran. The screenplay by Bella and Sam Spewack is based on their 1935 stage play of the same name, which ran for 669 performances on Broadway. The two zany screenwriters played by Cagney and O'Brien were based on Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, while Ralph Bellamy's part as the producer was based on Darryl Zanuck of 20th Century Fox.
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Two screenwriters, Law and Benson (James Cagney and Pat O'Brien), are in need of a story for cowboy star Larry Toms (Dick Foran). When studio waitress Susie Seabrook (Marie Wilson) faints in the office of producer C.F. Friday (Ralph Bellamy) because she is pregnant, the writers get an idea for a story about a cowboy and a baby, and cast Susie's unborn baby Happy in the part. The story will be the classic Hollywood tale: Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl. When they all leave to sell the idea to their boss, Susie meets and is intrigued by, Rodney Bevan (Bruce Lester), a good-looking young Englishman who is an extra on one of the studio's films.Actors
James Cagney
(Robert Law)
Dennie Moore
(Miss Crews)
Pat O'Brien
(J. Carlyle 'J.C.' Benson)
Marie Wilson
(Mrs. Susan 'Susie' Seabrook)
Ralph Bellamy
(C. Elliott 'C.F.' Friday)
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